To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

Your body is the harp of the soul.